Please Sign The Letter Below

Dear President Obama and Members of Congress:

The wars in which the United States is currently engaged–in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and Libya–are harming U.S. national and economic security, degrading the standing of the United States in the world community, fueling hatred abroad for Americans and undermining the rule of law. These unconstitutional wars have been justified on false premises, and most recently in the case of Libya there was not even the pretense of a congressional declaration of war, making it an impeachable offense. We urge you to end the current illegal wars and start a national dialogue about shifting U.S. foreign policy away from dominance through military might, and toward being a member of the community of nations.

It is time to end all of these wars. It is time to initiate a fundamental shift in U.S. foreign policy away from domination of others through military strength and damaging sanctions. As a first step we urge a major withdrawal of soldiers from Afghanistan–as candidate Obama promised in 2008. This withdrawal should be at least as large as the 63,000 troop escalation the President put in place early in his presidency. This withdrawal should be defined as a clear first step to a complete withdrawal of all soldiers and private contractors from Afghanistan by the end of 2011. It is time to return to our Founders’ declared conception of the United States as a democratic Republic and not an Empire.

The people signing this letter come from all segments of the political spectrum. We are conservatives and progressives, liberals and libertarians, from the right, left and center. We are Democrats, Republicans and independents. We represent a healthy and still vital American tradition, indicated by the fact that the majority of Americans want the United States to bring the soldiers home from these counterproductive and avoidable wars.

The U.S. needs to normalize relationships with countries around the world, especially in the Middle East. We recognize that there are important natural resources in these areas. But we can achieve a sustainable economy in more effective ways than war and empire. The United States clearly has the wealth and knowledge to make this transition, and showing how it can be done would be an unparalleled service to our people and the world.

This is the time for a profound shift in foreign policy. A perfect storm has demonstrated the urgent need to reconsider militarism and promiscuous interventionism:

– The U.S. economy can no longer sustain a bloated military that spends as much on weapons and war as the rest of the world combined.

– The U.S. economy is in dangerous straits with mass debt fueled in large part by military spending that makes up 55% of federal discretionary spending.

– In war after war the US military has found that it cannot defeat people who seek to protect their countries and reject foreign domination, the very lesson of our own American Revolution.

– Documents published by Wikileaks have added fresh evidence discrediting the idea of the U.S. being the “good cop of the world.” Instead the world increasingly sees the U.S. government as one that dominates through threats, violence, bribery, spying and illegal actions, and is all too willing to use military force to achieve its ends. That is not the polity which the majority of Americans wish.

– The rule of law has been undermined by ignoring Article 1 Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution, which specifically states that Congress has the authority to declare war, not the president. Tactics used in recent wars, including torture and widespread abuse of prisoners, further undermine the rule of law.

– Even with the raid on the Osama bin Laden refuge, the growth of stateless terrorism will not abate as long as the United States continues waging wars which commonly feature torture, midnight raids on families and the killing of innocent civilians.

– War brings suffering on a massive scale and unnecessary war brings pointless suffering. Reliable reports indicate more than one million war dead in Iraq and millions more becoming refugees. There are constant reports of civilian deaths in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Libya.

Mr. President and members of Congress, you have a historic opportunity to redirect U.S. foreign policy down the pathways of peace, liberty, justice, respect for community, obedience to the rule of law and fiscal responsibility. George Washington urged Americans to “cultivate peace and harmony with all” and to “avoid overgrown military establishments,” which are “hostile to republican liberty.” It is time for Americans to reject fear and militarism and embrace the highest, noblest aspirations of our heritage. It is time to come home, America.

Sincerely,*

[Please add your signature and hometown in the comment section below or write to akeaton at antiwar.com with “Please Add Me” in the subject line.]

I’m in complete agreement EXCEPT for the paragraph beginning “Even with the raid on the Osama Bin Laden refuge…” The raid itself was a flagrant act of state terrorism and one of the US’s nastiest violations of the Nuremberg Charter. It was an act of war; an invasion with no provocation by Pakistan. Assassinations without provision for trial are violations of international law. The US runs rampage not only in its wars but in its presumption that it owns the world and therefore it can invade any country for whatever purposes, with impunity. The Nazis were tried in Nuremberg for the same crimes. I have read only one good article on tthis, he war crime constituted by the “raid” and asssassination of Bin Laden (along with family members): by Noam Chomsky. You can sign my name, but please, with this comment beside it. I am Ellen Cantarow of Medford, Massachusetts. I am a journalist and activist.

Pres. Obama has shown no change in our foreign policy with regards to the endless wars. He has even beat Bush with countries he has dropped bombs/continued war. Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Iraq, Yemen….the list is growing. Our Nation is being bankrupted both financially and spiritually with these illegal and endless wars.

So well said. My blood boils when I hear from Obama and the rest of our elected inept officials about corruption in foreign lands , yet in our country they have taken money off the backs of hard working americans squandered it and they in the name of politics condone this for power and greed and re- election . I am appalled americans are not surrounding the white house asking for everyone to step down ….This is a sad state of affairs for this nation.. American looks weak and I’m afraid we will never be the american so many have given there lives for. Shame on the whole lot of them ……..

We need the billions of dollars spent on the Wars, the military, foreign alliances and clients to be invested here at home in our people. A huge segment of our population has been left out of innovation, technology, education and development. Not to mention trade relations with countries such as Haiti and Africa. End the war, PLEASE.

Bring our men and women home and stop the bloodshed, our men and women are in foreign lands fighting losing there lives getting badly injured and why ? For Liberty and Freedom while we are losing our Liberty and Freedom in this country as I type. Our military deserves to have a sound government not one who is corrupt and inept. Bring our men and women home now.

War is wasteful and not good foreign policy. American interests aka corporate interests are simply no reason for military action. When american corporate interests invest abroad they must assume the risks pure and simple.

Nation building is a domain of the nation which believes it is due for building.
USA has NO reason to be doing any nation building anywhere except in USA
which is is sore need of RE building. Troops are trained to do just that
Stop the killing of innocents and bring our skilled kids home to do the work
here. 🙂

This imperialisic-attitude towards other nations, must end NOW!!! We are no longer the once-respected country the WH claims us to be. We have few allies, and Israel should NOT, be included, but we are staunch supporters of their Zionist-regime. Our worst terror-threat, is right here at home. We have spent trillions on these unjustified wars, and murdered millions, for oil and access to the pipeline to the oil. We have invaded these countries, not to protect us from terrorists, but for the commodities that we want to control. This must end NOW!!!!!

We are becoming the very thing we have always supposedly been against. It must stop. I want my country back! I want to be able to respect my country and my government again! I want our “defense” department to quit killing innocent people with robots! I want an end to our support for the racist state of Israel and its abject racist imprisonment and abuse of the Palestinians which is bringing pain and suffering to millions of innocent people and instability to the world. We do not need 700 bases around the world to provide our “homeland” security. We are bankrupt but the Pentagon and military-industrial complex wants MORE, MORE, MORE. Well, ENOUGH, ENOUGH, ENOUGH. Cut their budget, tax the corporocrats, bring sanity back!!!!!!!!!!!!

The real purpose of the military-industrial complex is to make certain individuals wealthy. G. W. Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” was sadly quite true; those who make fun of it simply don’t realize what mission was accomplished.
This madness must end. Unfortunately, I hold out little hope of its ending until the USA implodes, financially collapses.

Solve all the world’s ills in one go – end America’s revolting empire (no better or more moral than any past empires) -use the money to educate, to cure hunger, to heal the environment, promote clean energy, to cure diseases worldwide. Just a small portion of what America spends killing people all over the world could be better used in any of these ways and yet there are those whose sole interest is in making sure that the US remains a brutal force AGAINST democracy. It’s such a waste and now we see how badly it affects the US at home as the economy falls apart and the education system fails the children. America is on a steep downward slide into less-than-third-world status. End the wars.

Many of us believed your words, despite our political skepticism, and crossed party lines to vote for the “Change” you promised. Perhaps we misunderstood? As the national debt soars to incomprehensible amounts, and Washington’s deadly, costly, brutal and immoral wars rage on, and even expand into Libya, Yemen, Somalia, Sudan, and the “Drug Wars” of Mexico and Central/South American, you can perhaps appreciate our horror, displeasure and feelings of betrayal? If you truly do believe in something, anything at all, Mr. President, dig in your heels and take a forthright and manly stand. If your words on the campaign trail meant anything at all, and weren’t merely empty campaign rhetoric, then many of us still believe that you will choose the proper stand to take.

At times I feel hopeless at how out of control, how arrogant, how well shielded by the lapdog corporate media the rulers of our Empire are, and how futile our efforts to elect a responsive government have been. Then I come across a petition like this and I see signatures of all the people from so many movements and so many walks of life and my courage returns and my heart soars. Yes we have a chance. Yes, we can end this madness. There are so many of us with our hearts and passion engaged, and so few of them that are doing more than following orders for a paycheck. Yes, here is my signature, my heart and hand on this!

Why are we in any of these non-wars as you call them? People are dying because of this militerism and this nonsense must stop NOW. Have you ever worn the uniform? It is about time you did if for no other reason to get a taste of hell.

The survival of the human species is threatened by the excessive and abusive negative impacts of man on our special life bearing particle floating in a vast ocean of space. To have a future that is sustainable we have to redirect our energies to be more sensitive to the ecological balance within the thin ecosphere layer on the surface of Mother Earth. The military industrial complex with power hungry leaders who take the Western powers on geopolitical resource wars and expose us to ecological disasters such as Fuchishima make recovery extremely difficult. A path of peace and cooperation is necessary for the survival of our species. Please lets have peace.

Wishful thinking on a most necessary goal. There is no way we can shake these Elite off just by telling them to be good. Just as we speak not only does the US economy continue to be trashed at the expense of the tax payer but Halliburton and the like continue to make money for the Elite. I think we need a unified leader to stand up on behalf of us aware and outspoken individuals and demand that the Elite be dismantled or else both on the human and divine level. There is no way such sites w/ even billions of signatures and sites like ‘charter for compassion’ will shake these war and money mongers. We need to be stern and physical against them behind a leader that will stand up for the rights of all people.

We of different backgrounds in religion, nationality, ideology and the like can even unite under one and the same leader because we have common enemies, the Elite of all societies, and the desire for justice and peace for all. The fact that we differ on our methods, so long as they are peaceful towards the peaceful and give warning and exert action against those who harm and use the innocent, are not important. This means we can all achieve peace and justice by tools and methods common to all of us and in return remain in our respective way of life.

I urge you to think about this because it is very elementary. It is the one integral element that has been missing in most if not all resistance against Elites of the past and present. This is what the US presidents claim, that they will justly rule over us allowing us to be and do as we please, but the only thing about them is that not only do they lie but they are hypocrites in their own actions towards peace. We the average people need to rise up and be supportive and vocal towards our demands under one leadership.

Imagine what impact we could have had since 911 if we all had one unified leader, a leader that could not be discredited for anything because all their life was honest to society and all their resistance just. That leader could have been you, me, Ron Paul, or nearly anyone so long as they where supported by the vast majority of us who think of peace day and night.

I am neither a pacifist or anything else you may consider “extreme” by any interpretation..However, I love standing by truth, common sense, as I know it, and that defines this letter. No trouble standing by you on this 100%.

We can stop the flow of trillions of dollars down various DOD rat holes NOW. Not one of our crying needs in the US gets done without money, and that’s everything from rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure to solving environmental problems and educating the next generation. Mr. President, do the right thing.

If the United States does not end war and act as an agent of peace promoting “soft power” rather than military might, then the U.S. leadership will be diminished and the country will become a pariah state in the world community. Act now!
Bill Freeman, Canadian writer

The American people need to restore their involvement in their own governance and let themselves be guided by evidence rather than the self-interested claims of those who hold political, economic, and social power in this country. If that involvement had been there in 2002, we never would have invaded Iraq.

It is past time for U.S. troops to be brought home from Iraq and Afghanistan. It is past time for the U.S. to change its foreign policy from being an Empire to being a Caregiver to its own people and to has many other people in the world as we can afford. But, we must take care of our own people first. We are not doing that. If we don’t make an abrupt change in the way we live, we will pay a horrendous price in the years ahead.

You campaigned as an agent for hope and change, a change in the aggressive, immoral, and treasury draining, foreign policy of George W. Bush. Please honor your mandate by ending these wars and bringing the troops home.

The wars in which the United States is currently engaged–in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and Libya–are harming U.S. national and economic security, degrading the standing of the United States in the world community, fueling hatred abroad for Americans and undermining the rule of law. These unconstitutional wars have been justified on false premises, and most recently in the case of Libya there was not even the pretense of a congressional declaration of war, making it an impeachable offense. We urge you to end the current illegal wars and start a national dialogue about shifting U.S. foreign policy away from dominance through military might, and toward being a member of the community of nations.

It should be noted that we don’t have to reform our energy economy in order to end the wars in the Middle East. While the wars may benefit the oil companies, they do not benefit the American people. The American people will end up paying world market prices for oil no matter who controls the source.

Please don’t let the War Lobby continue to take money America doesn’t have. Take a cue from Switzerland and Japan, by stopping fighting, and starting talking.

While lies and threats are no way for Libya’s government to rule, it is not our place to intervene, and we are only providing basis for propaganda by doing so.

By holding peace in Iraq by military force, we are only telling them that military action is the answer, not due process and finding common ground.

By staying in Afghanistan we are becoming the primary recruiting method for insurgents and terrorists, derailing their peace process.

All of our interference in the middle east is being used by opportunists in the Palestinian Militant extremists to fuel their support and justify their actions. The Israeli Militant extremists are utilizing that very growth in Palestinian Militants to do the same. Because of this, discontinuing major military operations in the Middle east will help reduce the Israeli conflict.

Overall US Military intervention has led to a less safe, less secure, and less peaceful world, at the cost of our National Identity, Economy, and Security. The only people who have profited are Military Contractors and others involved in producing and selling arms and other military supplies. Please consider a person’s associations and investments with such business before taking any advice from them. Think of what they have to gain from the action, and why their advice might be tainted by that. People can use misleading information to justify anything they want to do but the results speak louder as to the truth.

This is an endless war. You cannot win a war on ideals. They are always going to be around. We need to protect ourselves and our beautiful nation. I swore to protect my country and the constitution. STOP THIS NOW. I, and many others, WILL NOT stand by and let you run this nation into the ground. Work with us and we will work with you to help heal our gaping wounds of debt by private sector job stimulation and repeal of senseless laws.

We have become the evil empire. We are invading people’s homeland, killing civlians every day and it accomplishes nothing for us or them. Wall Street, the MIC, Big Business and our politicians have become murderers because it is profitable. The people here are sick of seeing people in the Middle East killed as “collateral damage”. No more endless, imperialistic wars!
Michael Cormany
Aurora. IL

One day a soldier woke-up, he said to his commander
I am not going to kill for you anymore, and his commander
said “What the BLEEP……..”
The soldier’s comrades stood up and dropped their guns and
said ‘No Man Woman or Child shall we ever harm again”

The whole unit dropped their weapons
Soon all the units dropped their ammunition and DU weapons

And all the US INVASIONS and OCCUPATIONS ended
And all our soldiers came marching home… Hooray !!!

The President asked how did this happen?
It happened because “We The People ” … ..Visualized World Peace
We also visualized a reinstating of the Constitution, and all of us, including
public servants where held accountable to the original law of the Land

The President said ‘you can’t do that’, and the People said
“YES WE CAN”

God in turn decided to reward us in 2012
and we all lived happily ever after.

You have the power to change the world through Creative Visualization
Let’s dream together

I thought you were different, I was wrong. I thought you had backbone, you are a sellout and a shill. You are a very shrewd and intelligent man, but I never took you as heartless. I wish you better than what those in the countries we occupy are receiving. Do something just, and noble, stand up; I know you won’t, but know that it is never too late to have soul. As Neil Young said “Even Richard Nixon has got it.”

Obama-Bush Military-Industrial Nightmare 1984 Double Speak has come TRUE!!!!! Impeach, Impeach, Impeach!!!! Arrest! Deport! Incarcerate!!!!! WE THE PEOPLE ARE THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT. WE THE PEOPLE ARE THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT. WE THE PEOPLE ARE THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT. WAKE UP AND REPLACE THIS TYRANNICAL GOVERNMENT. IT IS OUT CONSTITUTIONAL DUTY AND RIGHT.

My grandfather trained pilots in the U.S. Army Air Corps in the early 20th century. My father was a fighter pilot in World War II. I served this country as an officer in the US Naval Reserves. My grandfather was a conservative Republican, and my father was a liberal Democrat. If they were alive today, they would be as horrified as I am at what this country has become. Regardless of which party is in power, we go to war first and ask questions later. We can find literally trillions to waste on endless, counterproductive wars and empire (billions of which the Pentagon can’t even account for), but we have no money to help out our schools, or to create jobs, or to keep social safety net programs going, or to rebuild our decaying infrastructure, or to seed innovative green technologies, etc., etc., ad nauseum. We are letting our own country collapse while we go abroad in search of chimerical monsters to destroy.

My grandfather trained pilots in the U.S. Army Air Corps in the early 20th century. My father was a fighter pilot in World War II. I served this country as an officer in the US Naval Reserves. My grandfather was a conservative Republican, and my father was a liberal Democrat. If they were alive today, they would be as horrified as I am at what this country has become. Regardless of which party is in power, we go to war first and ask questions later. We can find literally trillions to waste on endless, counterproductive wars and empire (billions of which the Pentagon can’t even account for), but we have no money to help out our schools, or to create jobs, or to keep social safety net programs going, or to rebuild our decaying infrastructure, or to seed innovative green technologies, etc., etc., ad nauseum. We are letting our own country collapse while we go abroad in search of chimerical monsters to destroy.

As a long concerned British citizen – so many of us are completely disillusioned by US actions in the years since 1945. Our Governments have sadly appeared to have been tied to American policies and we do not agree with them. Please, US , make dramatic changes towards Peace and Justice.

With the millions of dollars we spend a day for wars, we could take care of all of our domestic problems. Let’s bring all our troops home immediatey, and the mercenaries we have in all the mid-east countries. No one mentions bringing the “hired soldiers” home.

It will be a great day when the US Air Force has to hold a bake sale to build a bomber while our schools have all the books they need to educate our children. Teach them to love their fellow human beings, teach them non-violence to resolve conflict, to see us as one huge human family, different shades of color, different customs but one in love with humanity.

I sign this letter in honor of my 58,479 brothers and sisters who died in Vietnam, for absolutely NO reason, at all. Enough is enough. NO MORE wasted lives should be sacrificed on the altar of American Hegemania.

As Canada moves to a greater military role, doing the bullies bidding as it were, I find myself also needing to add my voice. Hollow words at the podium declaring support for people and democracy, when really controlling foreign economic interests is the true goal, can continue no more. HONESTY AND TRANSPARENCY DEMAND A RETURN TO RULE OF LAW AND RESPECT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS!!
Please sign my name – Susan Rice, Brantford ON Canada

Dear Mr president
You may well remember you presidential election win over Bush, there has never been a worldwide celebration for a US president before it a historic moment in almost every country, hoping that you reverse the Bush path, it sad that you didn’t only followed Bush path you’ve actually intensifeid the wars dashing all the celebrations and hopes. there will be another global celebration for your downfall too. just a reminder…..

Using humanitarian efforts to cover up war is un-just and against the law. The war against Libya must cease and stand down before hundreds or thousands are killed in the name of stealing a countrys assets!

“Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.” -M.L. King, Jr. –

I agree with the entire contents of the letter. These wars are a lie and have nothing to do with the “war on terror”. And these acts are immoral and putting us in financial burden all to further the New World Order. The love of money is the root of all evil, our government and Federal Reserve are making that quite clear.

Enough is enough! These warmongers from both political parties are destroying our economy, killing countrymen and women and innocent civilians abroad, and increasing our vulnerability to attacks from outside our borders.

President Eisenhower said at the end of his term, “Beware the military industrial complex”! That was 60 years ago, and were STILL feeding this evil, bottomless pit of destruction and waste.

I endorse this letter unequivocally. America has been the most warring nation since the end of WWII. It is time to stop this deadly habit that benefits only war profiteers.
Gary Brumback, author of The Devil’s Marriage: Break Up the Corpocracy or Leave Democracy in the Lurch.http://www.democracypowernow.com

Please stop spending money on trying to force other people to think and act as we do. Bring the troops home and many of them could get jobs rebuilding our infrastructure. The rest of the money can pay off our debt.

The United States now leads the world in militarism and in selling and export of arms of all sorts and if we really want to promote a more peaceful, stable and equitable world it is now time for this country to create and promote a better path for the future.
If we really want to rid the world of ‘weapons of mass destruction’ it is time that we started with the ones that originate on our own soil.
It would set a more honest and clear standard for the rest of the world, and for all future generations to follow.

The best thing that we could learn from all of the countless lives lost and all of the suffering, wounds and psyches ravaged, and all of the devastation and loss from the godawful scourge of war is to learn to find healthier, saner and more creative ways to settle and heal grievances and differences and find ways to communicate and get along with ALL
of our global neighbors.

As a Canadian citizen who had sadly come to believe that your once-great nation was on an irreversible and accelerating slide into hell, fueled by special interests, ignorance, lawlessness, militarism and greed, I was heartened and encouraged by your website and the wonderful comments of all the diverse signatories to this letter. Congratulations to one and all. We are faced with very similar albeit lower-key idiocies right here in Canada, but I wish you and all the comehomeamericans every success in your endeavours. Grill your candidates early and often and . . . please don’t be fooled again.

(And please: prosecute ALL the torturers. regardless of status or former status,, as your international treaty obligations require you to do. Don’t be taken in by your President’s sophistry that prosecution of torturers is just “looking backward,” the most ridiculous excuse for shirking a duty to prosecute that I have ever heard – – EVERY criminal prosecution in the world NECESSARILY involves “looking backward.” What the hell is a prosecutor supposed to do, “look forward” and start prosecuting people for crimes they are going to commit in the future?)

My grandfather was wounded in the war to end wars;my father spent 32 months in combat during the good war,and I was conscripted into the Vietnam War. This is a very common experience in America,and now more than ever we need the transformation of our country calling us to Peace,the service of which honors all veterans everywhere,and that is the truth so help me God. So Mr. President…. the sooner you get on board on this,the sooner the foundation can be reenforced. Steve McKeown,Mpls Veterans for Peace

“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.” DDE

I am utterly fed-up with a government that no longer represents me or American ideals. It is long past time for a 3rd party that I would feel comfortable voting for. At the present moment I feel that my vote is a useless one.

All the deaths and torture in the name of the “war on terrorism” are NOT amking us at all safer. Instead, these wars have already bankrupted America’s morality and are now doing the same to our economics. Bing ALL the troops home—including the merenaries/contrators!

We are earning bad will wherever we send troops and the paid groups like Haliburton or whatever their name is this week. We are spending ourselves into oblivion and hurting our own people. Just stop, please.

America also needs to end the one-sided support of Israel against the right of the Palestinians. Terrorists are not born, they are created by occupations, unjust wars, torture, the killing of innocent civilians, the use of unmanned drones, and the destruction of towns and villages and homes.
As a retired California newspaper publisher, I’m proud to add my name to this letter.

Jason Gatties
St.Joseph, Mi
Security Consultant, Former Chairman of the Boston Tea Party, Former Chairman of the Libertarian Party of Southwest Michigan & most importantly, concerned parent of a two children who should not have to grow up in fear.

Add mine to the voices raised against this murderous madness for profit; all at the expense of decency. If this perpetual war is what so many Americans gave their lives to establish, then surely they died in vain.
Mike Dugger, Phoenix, Arizona Republic, without the United States

Please add my name to the list. Like LTG Smedley Butler, I spent my youth serving in the military that serves the whims of a corrupt gov’t controlled by oligarchs, kleptocrats and just plain stupid and greedy politicians. Time for the troops to come home !

There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from the failure of human wisdom. Andrew Bonar Law, 1914.
Mr. President: Demonstrate your wisdom; quickly end the wars, including the horrific drone wars; show the World that America is capable of being a peaceful nation.

The US has been mobilized for war since 1940 — never demobilized after World War II That has fed our economy for 70 years, but what a cost in lives, money, and our national character!

President Eisenhower, in his farewell address, warned against the military-industrial complex, even though he was himself a war hero and had been the leader of the military campaign against Hitler. The MI complex still wants perpetual war for their own profits, but the United States can no longer afford it.

Obama must obtain “advice and consent” as in the Constitution, or impeach Obama.

End the wars
repeal all direct taxes on individuals
stop the drug war scam
downsize DC return sovereignty to the people
repeal all laws not strictly authorized by the constitution
allow the people to directly veto any law they believe is unjust
ignorance of the law is evidence of innocence when there are too many laws
stop prosecution of all victim-less crimes, no damages no punishment
get the government out of the education business
return to sound money backed by actual value. outlaw usury on bank credit
decentralize political and economic power to the people
resurrect property rights and respect for privacy of individuals
reform police and remove authority to use violence and weapons without provocation
release all prisoners who have not actually harmed anyone
compensate all victims of government damages
remove immunity of all government agents for crimes and injuries they cause
respect the will of individuals of conscience and prohibit violence against nonviolent actions
reform all corporate charters to make them liable for damages and injuries to people
make it illegal for any government agency to extort money from poor people
all government agents must be licensed, citizens authorized to write citations for damages
release all secret technology patents concerning free energy inventions
get government out of controlling medicine and food production
reduce amount of GNP spent on all government to 10%
reform all trade treaties to require balanced accounts with all nations
return to manufacturing based wealth creation type economy
stop covering up the true story of UFO visitations and admit contact events
stop attacking pioneers in cancer cures the AMA and FDA have suppressed
stop corporations from polluting the gene pool with DNA crap shooting
These are just a few of the changes needed to restore our nation
if you want to know where all the money went look up Walter Burien CAFR1

Bring them all home from all foreign bases. Not just in the middle east. Cut the CIA 90%. The more they bring home troops, the more they send in CIA (private contractors) In the words of multiple congressional medal of honor winner Marine General Smedley Butler – WAR IS A RACKET.

Tom Luther is in favor of this proposal. The real question is beyond the moral dimension. Literally millions of americans are on the dole, profiting handsomely via the military and its supplier network. Exactly how do we pry these wealthy and powerful individuals off the government teat? And convince them of the merits of alternatives? The merits of real freedom (economic and personal) are well established, but poorly understood and can be difficult to convey to “the man” and his immediate dependents.

I am tired of this never-ending war, preemptive victories, and then more war. I wish that America wasn’t seperating itself so much by being a bully on a playground. Please add me…
Dominique E. Robinson Nashville Tennessee

Time to stop chasing monsters abroad, and rediscover our republican roots.Our cherished republic is slipping away from us, and being replaced with a bloated and corrupt empire/police state. War is a racket.

I HAVE BEEN WANTING ANMERICA TO STOP ITS FOREIGN SOJOURNS AND CONCENTRATE ON THIS COUNTRY SINCE I WAS 12 YEARS OLD. PLEASE BRING ALL OUR TROPS HOME FROM OVERSEAS AND NNED OUR MONEY SPENT HERE AND NOT IN SOME FAR FLUNG LAND WHILE OUR OWN PEOPLE SUFFER.

And while you’re at it, give up the insane drug war. The war on drugs is much worse than the drugs themselves. It didn’t work with alcohol prohibition, and it doesn’t work now. You spend billions of our dollars making life worse for everyone. Stop it.

This is a well written letter but at this point I feel urging this criminal cabal to do the right thing is wishful thinking. It should read that we demand that they adhere to the constitution and the rule of law. When they took their oath of office they swore to do the same. What is wrong with the people in this country that so many refuse to do their civic duty and hold these criminals to account for the crimes they are and have committed.
The letter also implies that we are accepting the official lies and accounts of the death of CIA asset Bin Laden and the events of 911.
I’ll sign the letter but I believe its tone to be too meek.

Being a priest of the Gaudiya Vaisnava Sampradaya, I have deeply researched the causes of War. Today’s wars are engineered by International Bankers and their cabal who profit from both sides. Their collective arms are disguised and some like the Federal Reserve System operate
in a semi-disguise with a smile on their face. Political wars are now completely Orwellian Doublespeak. The recent “kinetic military action” in Libya is the most recent. I have spent much time overseas, especially in India, and Americans are becoming more and more hated as the actual rogues, imperialists, and exploiters of the world. Big Government has overstepped its right on the sovereign citizens of America. We have become a “demon-crazy” country not a Constitutional Republic. I am becoming ashamed to call myself “American”. And above all, we have lost our sight of loving God-principles, we have become lovers for power, money and that means War. I see so many young kids, 18, 19, 20, etc. in Oceanside duped into thinking we are going overseas because when we return we will get so many benefits. Lies. Hypocrisy. Bring the boys (and girls) home. I am tired of cleaning up the vomit from these corporate wars. Obama is a bogus CEO for USA, Inc. Obaminable is the latest word in our “living Constitution”.

As a Vietnam era veteran O would like to see the day that Americans are at peace in the world rather than spending so much blood and treasure defending other countries from the people living in those countries.

They ask what side we are on we are on the right side the side not lieing and murdering innocent people for money then calling them terrorists for defending there country from illegal invaders.No country has vthe right to go kill people or overthrough governments unless attacked or are sure an attack is at your door period.

War is the most efficient way to shift wealth from the working class to the rentier (people who make money off of money) class. The only way to prevent war is to criminalize political and business malfeasance with stiff penalties including the death penalty for war mongering.

Obama, please fulfill your promise to the American people, and bring the troops home. The time has come, and American people need the tax dollars invested in education here at home, healthcare here at home, and basics like food and shelter. Social programs and public education have had major cuts across the country, and our people are suffering. It is shameful the amount our country is spending fighting wars overseas while our people suffer. It is not right, it does not send a good message to the rest of the world, and it needs to end. End our military involvement in other countries now.

It’s high time people of all political persuasions that are opposed to the endless warmongering of our elites worked together. Consider me signed on to this letter, except I want all the troops and the CIA and the contractors home now and all the bombings, drone or otherwise, to stop now.

The Department of Defense should also be re-given its original name, the Department of War so we don’t forget what it is.

End the wars now. Bring our troops home where they belong. Stop the senseless killing, it does nothing to make us safer and I’m pretty sure you already know that. Do what is right, not what is right for yourself and your interests.

“Humanitarianism, delivered by a powerful government through threats of massive bombing attacks, will never be a responsible way to enhance peace.” – Ron Paul
Please add me, please bring them HOME.
Peg McIntyre
Tomball TX

After reading most of these comments that precede mine, I hope and pray that each of these individuals as well as the rest of America will make the necessary step of change at the election booth. The major parties are not going to allow a candidate who can bring our country back to its roots on their ticket. We, as individuals, must talk with our friends, neighbors, and coworkers to elect the ‘right’ people. If you believe in and value liberty and freedom, do your homework and find out who’s backing your candidates and upon which principles they truly stand. It seems insurmountable, but something has got to wake up the majority of Americans from this facade. The media will certainly be a huge obstacle in this. I pray we can turn things around. The ‘elitists’ (from both major parties) will continue to lead ‘the sheep’ down the wrong path if we choose to be led.

It has been said that the most sensitive nerve in the human body is the pocket book nerve. Once the American people come to realise the true cost of empire and endless war and how it is adversely affecting their own personal financial well being, then the empire and endless wars will end! Thde only question left unanswered is how many innocent people will we kill and maim until then?

I don’t know how anyone can disagree with either of these reasons to bring the troops home.

“The U.S. economy can no longer sustain a bloated military that spends as much on weapons and war as the rest of the world combined.”

“The rule of law has been undermined by ignoring Article 1 Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution, which specifically states that Congress has the authority to declare war, not the president. Tactics used in recent wars, including torture and widespread abuse of prisoners, further undermine the rule of law.”

The wars in the Middle East are a horror and a crime against humanity. They are racist and in defense of drug dealers and oil cartels. They are bankrupting the treasury and the moral character of America. End them now!

Sound the retreat in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Korea, Japan, Italy, Germany, and more than 100 other client countries that we occupy. The world will know we go, not in defeat, but in radical conversion in doing to others what we would want them to do to us.

“Very soon, every American will be required to register their biological property in a National system designed to keep track of the people and that will operate under the ancient system of pledging.

By such methodology, we can compel people to submit to our agenda, which will affect our security as a charge-back for our fiat paper currency. Every American will be forced to register, or suffer not being able to work and earn a living. They will be our chattel, and we will hold the security interest over them forever, by operation of the law merchant, under the scheme of secured transactions.

Americans, by unknowingly, or unwittingly delivering the bills of lading to us will be rendered bankrupt and insolvent, forever to remain economic slaves through taxation, secured by their pledges. They will be stripped of their rights and given a commercial value designed to make us a profit and they will be “non the wiser”, for not one man in a million could ever figure out our plans and, if by accident one or two would figure it out, we have in our arsenal “plausible deniability”.

After all, this is the only logical way to fund government, by floating liens and debt to the registrants in the form of benefits and privileges. This will inevitably reap to us huge profits beyond our wildest expectations and leave every American a contributor to this fraud which we will call “Social Insurance.”

Without realizing it, every American will insure us for any loss we may incur and in this manner; every American will unknowingly be our servant, however begrudgingly. The people will become helpless and without any hope for their redemption and, we will employ the high office of the President of our dummy corporation to foment this plot against America.”

“Promise me,
promise me this day,
promise me now,
while the sun is overhead
exactly at the zenith,
promise me:
Even as they
strike you down
with a mountain of hatred and violence;
even as they step on you and crush you
like a worm,
even as they dismember and disembowel you,
remember, brother (and sister),
remember:
man is not our enemy.
The only thing worthy of you is compassion –
invincible, limitless, unconditional.
Hatred will never let you face
the beast in man.
One day, when you face this beast alone,
with your courage intact, your eyes kind,
untroubled
(even as no one sees them),
out of your smile
will bloom a flower.
And those who love you
will behold you
across ten thousand worlds of birth and dying.
Alone again,
I will go on with bent head,
knowing that love has become eternal.
On the long, rough road,
the sun and the moon
will continue to shine.”
by Thich Nhat Hanh

Scotty Boman, professor and libertarian activist.
Detroit, MI
The anti-war movement helped push Congressional Democrats and Obama into power as our bankrupt nation carried the yoke of two publicly recognized wars. Now we have three. Gitmo is still open. We still shell out Trillions for military bases around the world. The people who protested Bush’s militarism, but support Obama, are no more sensible than the people who gave him a peace prize. Orwell was right.

Please stop wasting lives (some American, some the people of the invaded lands), wasting dollars (which could be put to simpler, more compassionately effective use), and degrading our moral standing (which often takes generations to recoup).

I agree. To the point. A new lyrics for Blowin in the Wind? “How many signatures must a petition have, before it is implemented?” In addition to blogging for Environmental Headlines, I’m also a blogger for peacenews.org and a member of Promoting Enduring Peace. Thank you!

Anything substantive I could add at this point would be redundant. Hopefully, I can add some non-substantive (e.g., strategic) commentary that will be worthwhile and not itself redundant (I did NOT read all the entries to see –I’d still be reading). Strategically, this petition is potentially the best outlet for expressing opposition to our nation’s imperialism I have yet seen. But, my gut tells me that “this, too, will pass,” unless some follow-through can be organized. It is hard for me to imagine marching alongside members of the loosely connected, Tea Party group, as I’m sure it would be for them to imagine walking alongside me. Yet, without them and others with these and other varied philosophies, we probably will not succeed. This petition has spanned much of that divide, at least in terms of the varying ideologies represented among the better known signatories. A follow-through that can maintain –if not expand upon– the ideological coalition is essential. One item that such a follow-through might need to incorporate is, in a word, JOBS(!). This is so not only because so many millions are suffering and need IMMEDIATE relief, but also because almost no one of any political stripe will fail to recognizes this (not to mention how the imperialism abroad is tied to the joblessness at home), and it would seem to be another solid source of bridge-building. As everyone here knows, however, HOW to address the jobs issue is a key divider among the diverse groups represented here. I hope the leadership here can find a way to overcome such division and lead us to the next steps as a united coalition. Perhaps there can be leadership groupings (always consisting of members representing at least two or more of the diverse ideologies represented here) spread across the nations by region or other category that will cover the nation and can coordinate activity. I don’t know, it is just a thought, but one that I “pray” others, more capable than myself, are giving serious thought to, “as we speak.”

The U.S.’s arrogant and violent foreign policy is a direct threat to our own nation — economically, politically, and in terms of retaliatory violence against Americans. STOP IT! Learn to get along with others.

Bring the troops home way. Too many are still being killed and at least 18 a day are committing suicide after they get home. There is so much good we could have done with all of this money and there is still good we could do. STOP ALL OF THESE ILLEGAL IMMORAL INVASIONS OF OTHER COUNTRIES.

We have drifted far from the principles on which our nation was founded. In the process we have ended hundreds of thousands of lives and brought desolation to millions of others. Instead of basing our policies on basic human rights, we think only in terms of power, thus bringing our country’s reputation to an all-time low. Our best way out of our predicament is to bring an immediate end to our militarism and to offer our services in the cause of human rights.

Thanks to Chalmers Johnson, Lew Rockwell, Daniel Ellsberg and so many other courageous patriots for their intellectual clarity and willingness to set an example that this movement embodies. It’s time for all Americans to say “Enough!” to US imperial ambitions.

While I applaud the initiative taken by this site I cannot, in good conscience, include myself in something of this caliber that is merely symbolic.

The first mistake I feel this letter makes is the false assumption that any politician who reads it actually cares what you think. Frankly, I am a little disappointed that some of the names that included their signature in the actual letter (not signatures from the comment section) still believe so.

A second mistake is that there really is no meaningful call to action if the politicians fail to listen. Obviously everyone that signs this letter believes in it enough to include their signature. What happens when the politicians fail to act on your concerns? Will you say to yourself “Oh well. I tried.”? Will you campaign to vote them out of office? Big deal. They’ll get some cushy consultant or lobbying job and be set for life, if they’re not already.

I think it’s time to put our money where our mouths are. It’s time to stop paying for war. I stopped a long time ago, and I know others have too, but maybe it’s time more do the same.

This does not have to be an organized strategy. I am working on a grassroots model that can be followed by any one person in any community across the country. I’ll post more details in a bit.

Dr. Andrew Bacevich writes in Washington Rules: The American credo “summons the Unit ed St ates–and t he United St ates alone–to lead, save, liberate, and ultimately transformt he world. In a celbrated manifesto issued at the dawn of what he termed the ‘American Century,’ Henry Luce made the case this spacious conception of global leadership.” Luce exhorted the US “to accept wholeheartedly our duty t o exert upon the world the full impact of our influence for such purposes as we see fit and by such means as we see fit.”

The United States’ involvement in wars of aggression and occupation can only be sustained by a constant barrage of demagogy to instill fear in the population. This tactic has succeeded in driving this country to the brink of a real police state, as author Andrew Kolin states in his recent book:” State Power and Democracy: Before and during the Presidency of George W. Bush”. Kolin writes: “The U.S. shares all the major attributes of a Third World police state: a constant state of emergency in which security always trumps civil liberties; sidestepping of laws by the government; excessive secrecy; the use of preventative detention and holding enemies of the state without filing formal charges; the manufacturing of reason for going to war”.
With all the intelligent and well-informed people in this land, how is it possible that we cannot stop this madness? Have the entrenched powers of evil managed to make themselves immune to any attempt to turn the country around? We can see daily how certain elements in Washington and the various state capitals are racing hell-bent-for-leather towards the end of our experiment in democracy and the rule of law undergirded by the very civil liberties which form the basis of our national ethos. They pay lip-service to these high principles, but undermine them at every opportunity by pandering to the elements which use their huge financial resources to corrupt and co-opt these public “servants”.
Our situation is dire, much more so even than following the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. Will we rise to this occasion to let our voices be heard at the highest levels of our national leadership? Or will we meekly let the current trend continue until all is lost?

I have no real comment to leave because I don’t believe that Obama represents the people. He is part of the machine, a corporate puppet and has followed in the footsteps of Bush. He is a fraud and deceiver. I don’t believe that he cares about the people of the USA at all. Hope and Change was one BIG FAT LIE. Join with US UNCUT, MOVEON,ORG and other groups that are really fighting for change. Write in your next presidential candidate and quit voting in corporate hacks. I’m writing in Grayson. Support the efforts of all truth tellers who want to expose the corruption and lies. Obama does not care if our kids die, if foreigners die. Obama does not care about Manning. Obama does not care about the middle class. Obama does not care about anything but his corporate handlers and Obama. I voted for him, I supported him, I read both his books. I can’t stand him anymore. He is more vile than Bush because at least Bush truly represented what a selfish spoiled delusional man he was as President. Same with Cheney, he practically exudes corruption from his very pores – same with Rove – but Obama, that “man” held out hope and promise and has done nothing but continue on with the Bush/Cheney/Rove agenda. So, there is my no comment – I have NO CONFIDENCE IN OBAMA TO DO THE RIGHT THING EVER. We have to do it ourselves. VOTE HIM OUT. And Please don’t put in one of the republican clowns. Just write in a decent candidate – the known ones you can count on one hand. Maybe communities can put forth names of good people in their own hometowns. Please chose people with half a brain and ethics. Obama you are A SNAKE IN THE GRASS. BRING OUR KIDS HOME YOU WAR MONGERING RAT.

I agree we need to reduce the United States military complex. Further, I agree with one signer of this document who stated: “I’m in complete agreement EXCEPT for the paragraph beginning “Even with the raid on the Osama Bin Laden refuge…” The raid itself was a flagrant act of state terrorism and one of the US’s nastiest violations of the Nuremberg Charter. It was an act of war; an invasion with no provocation by Pakistan. Assassinations without provision for trial are violations of international law. The US runs rampage not only in its wars but in its presumption that it owns the world and therefore it can invade any country for whatever purposes, with impunity. The Nazis were tried in Nuremberg for the same crimes. I have read only one good article on this, he war crime constituted by the “raid” and assassination of Bin Laden (along with family members): by Noam Chomsky. You can sign my name, but please, with this comment beside it.”

The United States has become an international bully in my opinion and I am against the imperialistic view our governmental leaders have taken with regard to other sovereign nations.

I have been abused by country and family because I opposed the military interventions of thge USA since Iraq war I—and did vote for Ross Perot and Pat Buchanan and would have voted for Bob Barr this last election had I been available to vote last election. I support Hannitty on Fox and writers such as Buchanan,Raimondo and Paul craig roberts.

Terrorists are 5 moves ahead of the U.S. just like a tournament level chess game. They started this whole thing with 911 just to tank our economy over time. It worked. Why doesn’t our govt see that our presence in all those countries is exactly what the terrorists were hoping for? We should just cut and run tomorrow, period. Our business (the U.S. as a country) just can’t afford to participate any longer. And, the bank creditors are calling us on the phone (so to speak) every day wondering where their money is. Time to use all sources to get them paid off.

From a “nation of laws”, we have become a nation that flaunts the law (while still criticizing [most] other violators). From a nation that opposed torture (starting with George Washington), we have become a nation that embraces torture. From “the home of the brave”, we have become the home of the fearful. From a nation that codified due process in its founding documents, we have become a nation that denies due process at the whim of those in power. From a “noble experiment” that inspired peoples and nations the world over, we have become an ignoble bully-nation that is feared and reviled by those who formerly admired us. We have allowed the powers of Godzilla corporations, extreme wealth and a grotesquely bloated military to seize control of our government and plunge us into endless war. From a dream of life and freedom, we have become a nightmare of death and oppression. The only possible remedy available now is for the citizenry to rise up in its multitudes and take back the country, and the dream, that once was ours.

First, send Obama, Pelosi, and Reed packing. The Dems made a huge mistake.

Second, stop crooked lawyers from using the courtesy title of Esquire. It may be used for adult males only and only when one does not use the front title of “Mr.” It has nothing to do with being a lawyer and especially stupid when women lawyers steal it. Are there any intelligent, liberty oriented lawyers out there?

It can’t happen too soon, and by the Grace of God/dess it’s not too late (except for those for whom it is too late because they lost their lives on a ‘war of choice’ battlefield). Please add my name to the list.

“I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded, who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. WAR IS HELL!” William Tecumseh Sherman

Over the past century, or a little more, the citizens of the USA have allowed themselves to be duped into making a deal with the devil. We have traded America, an ideal that has attracted millions of people from all over the world, for Uncle Sam, a sorry personifiation of greed and power. We want a “do-over” even though we may not deserve it. In order to begin to restore the American ideals of liberity and sustainable opportunity here at home we must honor those ideals abroad. Even if others don’t embrace these American ideals, that is their busniness and not Uncle Sam’s. We must insist that we mind our own business with the realization that even with our best efforts we will be lucky to solve our own problems here at home. We must end all our military and covert imperialist operations abroad (and at home too, for that matter) immediately. Our future and whatever we can salvage of the American ideal depend on it.
“An empire fights wars because that is what an empire does. And it continues fighting until it finally beats itself.”
~ Bill Bonner, Imperial Suicide Daily Reckoning

Over the past century, or a little more, the citizens of the USA have allowed themselves to be duped into making a deal with the devil. We have traded America, an ideal that has attracted millions of people from all over the world, for Uncle Sam, a sorry personifiation of greed and power. We want a “do-over” even though we may not deserve it. In order to begin to restore the American ideals of liberity and sustainable opportunity here at home we must honor those ideals abroad. Even if others don’t embrace these American ideals, that is their busniness and not Uncle Sam’s. We must insist that we mind our own business with the realization that even with our best efforts we will be lucky to solve our own problems here at home. We must end all our military and covert imperialist operations abroad (and at home too, for that matter) immediately. Our future and whatever we can salvage of the American ideal depend on it.
“An empire fights wars because that is what an empire does. And it continues fighting until it finally beats itself.”
~ Bill Bonner, Imperial Suicide Daily Reckoning
Sign me up.
Dennis Calhoun, Navy vet and retired commercial fisherman
Alaska

Wars should be declared by congress and fought to win. War should be defensive and entered into as a measure of last resort. Train, be ready, defend our borders and avoid foreign entanglements. Seek peace.

N Pelosi has got to end up being one of the particular many liberal people in politics within the particular country. It’s hard for me to believe exactly how folks can easily reelect her inside their own appropriate brain.

The United States Government is the most dangerous terrorist of the world, It’s for corporate profit wars of aggression are all justified by lies and created/manipulated intelligence. All of he ongoing wars (Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen, Libya and others) must be stopped and the thugs responsible for these crimes against humanity must be charged for their crimes as required by our own Constitutional laws as well as international law.

Continuing these wars is kind of like, if I was out of money and got addicted to some ridiculous $100,000 a day drug. but I can’t print money or pretend I’m not spending the money. Let’s bring our soldiers and our money home. We need them here.

Ending the wars and reducing the out-of-control military is a giant step toward the solution to America’s financial and moral problems. Count me in as a supporter, and thank you, George, for taking this stand.

So Obama signs and the debt bill becomes law. Everybody heaves sighs of relief and life carries on as normal – but for what time frame? There’s only so much road you can kick the can down and America is getting close to the end of it. What then?

war is stupid… the only way to win… is to not do it… or at least be the last one to resort to it…
it’s particularly stupid to be the one in the fight with everything to lose… fighting against those who have nothing to lose.

(1) Balance the federal budget by ending the wars of fascist capitalist aggression in the Middle East and North Africa.
(2) Balance the federal budget by removing all of the fascist capitalist war machine, i.e. the American military, from the Middle East, North Africa, South America, Europe and the Western Pacific.
(3) Balance the federal budget by drastically downsizing the fascist capitalist war machine.
(4) Balance the federal budget by ending all of the pork-barrel new weapons programs for the fascist capitalist war machine. In all cases the capitalist war machine doesn’t have a need for these new weapons. The only reason they are being developed is to provide a market for American armaments corporations.
(5) Balance the federal budget by closing all 900+ foreign military bases used by the fascist capitalist war machine.
(6) Balance the federal budget by outlawing and disbanding all of the extremely expensive private fascist armies such as Blackwater, DynCorp and Blackhawk.
(7) Balance the federal budget by ending all military aid for the Philippines, Egypt, Israel, Iraq, South Korea, Taiwan, Columbia, Honduras, Tunisia, Jordan, etc., etc., etc.
(8) Balance the federal budget by ending all subsidies for the very profitable oil, natural gas and coal corporations, the nuclear power industry, the very profitable large agricultural corporations, etc., etc., etc.
(9) Balance the federal government by dismantling the huge and growing federal police-state security apparatus.
(10) Balance the federal budget by ending the extremely wasteful and ineffective war on drugs.
(11) Balance the federal budget by shutting down all of the illegal foreign prisons operated by the CIA.
(12) Balance the federal budget by shutting down the US Army’s notorious Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation(WHINSEC), formerly known as the School of the Americas(SOA). The WHINSEC trains police and military officers for fascist capitalist Central and South American governments that use them to brutally suppress political dissent.
(13) Balance the federal budget by maintaining the separation of church and state and ending all federal Faith-based initiatives. In other words, get the federal government out of the business of promoting religion. The Christian churches are very profitable capitalist business operations that can afford to finance their extremely reactionary parochial schools.
(14) Balance the federal budget by drastically raising the taxes on the obscenely wealthy pro-fascist capitalist class, the extremely profitable pro-fascist capitalist corporations and their highly overpaid pro-fascist corporate management.
(15) Balance the federal budget by ending the military build-up for a war with Iran, and/or North Korea, and/or Venezuela, and/or China.
(16) Balance the federal budget by disbanding the fascist capitalist war machine’s United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM). The original and only purpose of USNORTHCOM is to brutally suppress all legitimate dissent by the working class.
(17) Balance the federal budget by consolidating the corrupt and redundant Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATF) with the equally corrupt Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
(18) Balance the federal budget by drastically raising the excise taxes on all automotive fuels, alcohol and tobacco.
(19) End all of the fascist capitalist war machine’s no-bid contracts, particularly those for the private fascist armies such as Blackwater, DynCorp Blackhawk.

The USA is 14 Trillion Dollars in Debt, mostly to other nations, and the monthly interest alone is over 100 Billion Dollars, which had to be borrowed from other nations.
Yet, the US government transfers over 1 Trillion Dollars a year to Wall Street corporations known also as the Military Industrial Complex.
The US government also transfers the wealth of the nation to other nations through financial aid and loans.
This is not sustainable.
The US Empire is expanding like a Wall Street Bubble, and it must stop expanding or it will collapse, like the US Dollar is collapsing, and hyper-inflation is taking hold of our lives.
Can you see the problem?
Stop spending our money, and our future, on never ending wars that serve only the corporate interests, and shut down all US military bases around the world, and return all military personal back to the USA.
Peace.

This might seem a little radical but please hear what I say. I am for ending all useless pre-emptive wars that are mainly for corporate overthrows and one world banking control. But to get to the root of the real problem, the violence starts with slaughter of cows and meat-eating. It creates
an air of violence and envy of different countries. Mark Twain, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, so many were proponents of Ahimsa or non-violence. It starts with the tongue. Passion increases with each gorge of the tongue to satisfy only the taste for blood. Peace will never be achieved until we can understand the roots of violence. Cow slaughter, abortion, and such violent actions are the root causes of war. Bringing troops home is necessary, but changing our nation’s consciousness is the all-important factor. Read Bhagavad Gita. Hare Krishna.

There are many ways to “change our nation’s consciousness” rapidly, but some of the best ways are: multiplying the religions of non-violence; reforming education for children’s liberation (borntogroove.org and .com); transitioning to resilient local economies; finding wise citizen-candidates for the 2012 House elections (TruthAndTraditions Party).

If everyone signing here were to hook up with TruthAndTraditions Party
we could elect some rational longterm-thinking citizens to the House.
It will take a heap of living and loving to call the House our home.
Bring ALL the troops home to permaculture the 50 states for posterity.
Time to Transition from militarism to LOCAL RESILIENCE.

War is state-sanctioned gangsterism on a national level, and an enormous crime against humanity by humanity. Working-class people on a killing and maiming other working-class people for the benefit of the ruling-class. It’s been going on since antiquity and each society rationalizes why it is necessary to attack another society.

I’m looking forward to the day when the “armed forces” recruiters of all nations can’t make their quota and militarism because a relic in human history.

i am for peace…and i voted for peace when i voted for president..i voted for hope….i’m disappointed…the wars continue and become more complex…..i dream for one [president]..that would actually standby his/her word…end war….the people want peace…

President Obama’s decision to perpetuate and extend the Bush War policy is stupid and harmful to the United States throughout the World. The Israel-Palestine policy extend his major shortcomings.
On another note, the State of Georgia has scheduled the execution of Troy Davis for tomorrow, Wed, at 7:00 pm. Please keep Mr. Davis in your thoughts, and if you are so moved contact the Governor of Georgia to commute the sentence.

This is a very distinguished list of libertarian and other principled defenders of peace. How much better off we would be if any or all of these people were in positions of influence in the government of the United States.

Not one of the ongoing wars of terror, aggression and corporate profit, had a thing to do with our national security, but in fact are crimes against humanity that should be prosecuted in a world court. We can no longer aford your wasting our national treasue on your needless wars, bring all of our troops and contractors home now!

The issue is not just foreign policy, the war machine is slowly incorporating itself at home. See TSA, police, NFL screenings, teaching us that the state keeps us safe from war via our submission to control, while waging war and putting us in danger elsewhere. The same tyrants implement a creeping tyranny at home and an active terrorism abroad.

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Occupy America Party…..Should be the New Political Party for this Movement. They ought to run a Candidate like Elizabeth Warren for Presidient in 2012…Even if it is a Twitter and Facebook Candidacy…You want to focus this down and get some Juice going…That’s the way to do it.

I can no longer explain the difference to people recent immigrants between the acts of the president, congress and appointed members of our government, in continued war, aggression, torture and utter disregard for peaceful people, and the attitude and wishes of the real people (people like me, my family and friends) satisfactorily.

There is no good explanation, and no excuse for waging war against innocent people, even if you do manage to kill a few evildoers along the way. You betray the people who enlist in good faith. Your betrayal costs all of us.

I doubt that you will ever admit your error or crime but you should know that many more of us are aware of it than your pollsters can identify to you.

I am tremendously disappointed with President Obama. Recently he was down in Australia talking about building a new military base. Why? This world-wide military empire/occupation has bankrupted the USA in more ways than just economics.

Increasing in the USA I see the reestablishment of the Plantation. The Mafia shakedown organizations like the banks and “health” insurance companies are the new Masters. The middle class is being systematically decimated. 50,000,000 lack access to health care while 30,000 – 50,000 die years due to inadequate access to the “doctors.” How can America lecture any country on earth about “human rights” when so many die here due to no access to the so-called health care system. The USA is a major human rights abusing nation. Shame on the USA.

I am 61 years old. I have done well in this country. But, what it has become is disgusting. I see the American flag and I become angry. Conditions seem worse now than doing the George Bush’s years preceding Obama’s false promise of “Change.” Yeah!!! Change for the worse!!!!!

In some ways I am artistically energized by this dying society. I made a 1 hour film about a bunch of people who came and went through a homeless man’s camp. Two people were previously middle class.

This country is in such a mess that I am not sure it’s worth salvaging any more. I am tired of fighting against those who keep getting richer and richer at the expense of generations of American families who are just trying to live a decent life. Watching the CBS Sunday Morning program segment this morning about young people not affording college made me realize that there IS plenty of money to provide a free college education to qualified students (like in Europe). It’s just being spent on the military buildup and so-called “defense” projects and contractors here and around the world. Take the drones that are being built to do surveillance within our borders as an example of misspent millions. For what? I wish I could earmark my taxes for what I want: education, health, rebuilding our country’s infrastructure, cleaning up the environment, protecting the welfare of those who are not able to afford food or shelter. Stop giving our money to the greedy, including our elected and non-elected politicians in D.C. and now increasingly in our state governments. We need a complete turnover of power back to the people and a return to compassion and caring for one another.

The two major parties are War mongers – of course. For me and others who oppose our War policy, it is time to select a third party candidate who doesn’t have murders in mind. Presidential Kill lists – are they not mad!

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” Even with the raid on the Osama bin Laden refuge, the growth of stateless terrorism will not abate as long as the United States continues waging wars which commonly feature torture, midnight raids on families and the killing of innocent civilians.”

It is not ‘even with the raid’ of Osama bin Laden but precisely because of this and other similarly illegal, immoral and barbaric state-condoned practices that terrorism of the sort the letter points out (stateless) is on the rise. I am sure that the people who are terrorized by the state terrorism of the sort perpetrated by the US/NATO military monster could not care less who is shattering their lives.

This said, the letter is a good beginning and I am willing to sign it and join in whatever effort to end this increasingly horrifying madness.

Killer Drones, executive execution, ongoing wars, Guantanamo, NDAA with indefinite detention without hearing, torture, Bradley Manning, politicalparties more important than citizens, killer drones without probable cause, Aaron Swartz – what have you done to our once proud United States Nation.

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We should have heeded the founders’ fear of a standing army. We should have heeded Eisenhower’s warning about the influence of the military-industrial complex. We should have learned the lessons of Vietnam. The ever-increasing militarization of America is anti-democratic; it is destructive to the ideals of a freedom loving people. Who are we?

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US lead wars are financed by the huge cumulated US deficit, therefore by anyone outside US, including me as French Citizen. Furthermore accruing compensations/reparations are due to the millions of victims for deaths, destructions, loss on local incomes, and US and other belligerant and occupying states (and therefore their citizens) will have to pay over decades for these legitime reparations. STOP these illegal wars of manipulations and aggression, and EXPECT to PAY REPARATIONS, most probably from a TRIPLE GLOBAL TAX on ENERGY, FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS and WEAPONS, as we need to share the responsability and burden in a symbolic, effective and differentiated way.
Bernard CORNUT, Paris, engineer, writer, former president of CLE (against the blockade on Iraq) and president of IACFIE ! International active coalition fighting iniquitous embargoes)

We need to stay away from Syria or watch the start of World War 111. So many of our allies are not getting involved and we need to follow their lead. They are not cowards and may be know something we don’t know, we need to stop trying to be the world police and take care of our own domestic problems, We need to stop giving all this foreign aid to these countries that turn around and us the money either against us or it’s own people. My father use to say you can’t beat a man in his own backyard and we should have learned that in Vietnam, Afganistan and Iraq.

We have spoken Truth to power. It has not, and will not work, since this kind of power is a bully.
Now we must speak moral (political) Power to this immoral power. It is time for mass defection
from the 2 corporate parties to the Green Party. The Greens REFUSE corporate money! Let the
crooks and fools be divided into 2 corporate parties. The working class majority just needs one
united party to win. We can debate socialism vs. capitalism within the Green Party, but I think we
(aside from infiltrators) can agree that we want, NEED, DEMOCRACY. And corporate rule is not
democracy! If we don’t win, civilization and the planet die. Exaggeration? “Democrats” give us
NDAA/indefinite detention, torture, more lies, wars, poverty, hunger, – while the polar ice caps
melt, and at least one island nation in the Indian Ocean has disappeared beneath the waves.
And the “Republicans” keep dancing to the right, to enable the “Democrats” to do the same,
and BLACKMAIL people into voting for their COVERT evil, by saying “If you don’t vote for us, you’ll get the Republicans.”
But we are the majority. We just have to get organized into one party. Not easy, but we have to
try, if we don’t want barbarism and extinction.